CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: A High-Speed Scalable Research Core (HSSRC) at Washington State University

华盛顿州立大学(WSU)正在通过实施一项总体战略，在研究和教育中拥抱科学计算，以建设计算和数据科学方面的能力和能力，并更好地响应大学研究界跨几个学科的新兴、多样化和快速发展的需求。为了促进新的多学科研究应用，加速数据驱动的科学发现，并支持变革性的培训活动，西澳州立大学正在通过建立高速可扩展研究核心(HSSRC)来改善其高速网络基础设施，以访问广域科学服务和软件定义的网络环境。在休斯敦州立大学部署HSSRC，通过使模拟和仪器产生的数据能够更快、更有效地被分析，从而促进了参与科学学科的知识状况。例如，进入HSSRC使材料科学家能够应用预测理论和模拟能力来有效地探索结构-性质-性能参数空间，并设计具有优化和定制性质的新材料；使核理论家能够解开我们宇宙中未解的谜团；允许能源电网工程师实时分析大量电网情景；并为基因组学、遗传学和生物信息学的研究人员提供了剖析多样性的基因组基础并回答从解开生物体进化史到将基因组变化与表型变化联系起来的广泛问题的可能性。此外，在休斯敦州立大学部署HSSRC能够培训具有广泛建模和模拟学科以及“大数据”科学知识和经验的下一代科学领袖。

Washington State University (WSU) is embracing scientific computing in research and education by implementing an overarching strategy to build capacity and capabilities in computational and data science and to better respond to the emerging, diverse, and rapidly evolving needs of the university's research community across several disciplines. To catalyze new multi-disciplinary research applications, accelerate data-driven scientific discovery, and enable transformative training activities, WSU is improving its high-speed network infrastructure by establishing a High Speed Scalable Research Core (HSSRC) to access wide-area science services and software-defined networking environments. The deployment of the HSSRC at WSU advances the state-of-knowledge within the participating scientific disciplines by enabling the data resulting from simulations and instruments to be analyzed more rapidly and efficiently. For example, access to the HSSRC allows materials scientists to apply predictive theory and simulation capabilities to efficiently explore the structure-properties-performance parameter space and design new materials with optimized and tailored properties; enables nuclear theorists to unlock the unsolved mysteries of our cosmos; allows energy grid engineers to analyze in real-time the large number of power grids scenarios; and opens the possibility for researchers in genomics, genetics, and bioinformatics to dissect the genomic basis of diversity and answer questions that range from disentangling the evolutionary history of organisms to linking genomic changes to phenotypic changes. Moreover, the deployment of a HSSRC at WSU enables the training of the next generation of scientific leaders with knowledge and experience in a broad range of modeling and simulation disciplines and "big data" science.